inglés > español | |
key | |
1. s. Llave | |
Palabras derivadas: keyhole | |
2. s. Clave | |
3. s. Tecla | |
Palabras derivadas: keyboard, keypad, keystroke | |
4. s. Cayo, cada una de las islas de un archipélago que están dispuestas más o menos en fila, propias de ciertas partes del Caribe. | |
5. adj. Clave, crucial | |
inglés > inglés | |
key | |
1. s. An object designed to open and close a lock. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
2. s. An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
3. s. A crucial step or requirement. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
The key to solving this problem is persistence. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
the key to winning a game | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
4. s. A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
The key says that A stands for the accounting department. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
5. s. A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
Some students cheated by using the answer key. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
6. s. (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
Press the Escape key. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
7. s. (music) One of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard, each causing a particular sound or note to be produced. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
8. s. (music) One of various levers on a musical instrument used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
9. s. (music) A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
the key of B-flat major | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
10. s. (figurative) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
11. s. (botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
12. s. (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
13. s. (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
14. s. (internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
15. s. (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique). | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
16. s. (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
17. s. (basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
He shoots from the top of the key. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
18. s. (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
19. s. (architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
20. s. (architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
21. s. (masonry) A keystone. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
22. s. That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
23. s. (rail transport) A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
24. s. The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
The door panel should be sanded down carefully to provide a good key for the new paint. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
25. s. (cartomancy) The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
26. s. (print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
27. s. (computer graphics, television) A color to be masked or made transparent. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
28. adj. Indispensable, supremely important. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
He is the key player on his soccer team. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
29. adj. Important, salient. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
She makes several key points. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
30. v. To fit (a lock) with a key. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
31. v. To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
32. v. To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
33. v. (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key). | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
34. v. (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio). | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
35. v. (computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
Our instructor told us to key in our user IDs. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
36. v. (colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
He keyed the car that had taken his parking spot. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
37. v. To link (as one might do with a key or legend). | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
38. v. (intransitive, biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
39. v. To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
40. s. One of a string of small islands. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
the Florida Keys | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
41. s. alternative form of quay. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
42. s. (slang) (clipping of kilogram) (though this is more commonly shortened to kay). | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
español > inglés | |
llave | |
1. n-f. key (to open doors) | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
2. n-f. key (of musical instrument) | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
3. n-f. key (in heraldry) | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
4. n-f. spanner, wrench | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
5. n-f. faucet, tap, water tap, spigot | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
6. n-f. curly bracket ( and ) | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
7. n-f. switch (a device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow) | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
8. n-f. (wrestling) hold (position or grip used to control the opponent) | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
9. n-f. a game where a small metal disc is thrown at a small metal structure | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |